Tuesday April 28th: a new assignment for May

Greetings, one and all!



Today, each of your teams will begin a new assignment: to create a radio show that


A) meets the same minimum requirements as before
Greetings, one and all! Today, each of your teams will begin a new assignment: to create a radio show that A) meets the same minimum requirements as before:

0) you must have posted both a topic and a topic outline to our Google group
1) it must be at least twenty minutes long
2) it must have a theme song not more than one minute in length
3) it must include audible input from all team members
4) it must include either bumper music or special effects sounds in at least two points in the broadcast
5) it must make reference to at least one website that contains information relevant to your stated topic
6) it must be certifiably "school appropriate"

B) Connects a topic you have done already to a topic unlike any other you have done previously


C) Discusses how technology that has only come out in say the last two years has affected the two topics from point B

For example, some of you have done broadcasts that have been generally related to the overall topic of sports. Once you connect it to some other topic -- for example, betting on sports is as old as sports itself -- you would then discuss how technology has affected both of them. You will need to discuss at least one affect that very recent technology has had, and give at least several different examples.

OK, get your brains a-stormin', and get something set up on our Google discussion group

Mr. L



B) Connects a topic you have done already to a topic unlike any other you have done previously

C) Discusses how technology that has only come out in say the last two years has affected the two topics from point B

For example, some of you have done broadcasts that have been generally related to the overall topic of sports. Once you connect it to some other topic -- for example, betting on sports is as old as sports itself -- you would then discuss how technology has affected both of them.

You will need to discuss at least one affect that very recent technology has had, and give atn least several different examples.

OK, get your brains a-stormin', and get something set up on our Google discussion group

Mr. L

Tuesday April 14th: this is where your teams stand

OK, radio talkin' gents, here is where you stand in terms of your April shows:

TONE DEF
0) you must have posted both a topic and a topic outline to our Google group FOUND
1) it must be at least twenty minutes long 17 minutes
2) it must have a brand new theme song, not more than one minute in length FOUND
3) it must include audible input from all team members FOUND
4) it must include either bumper music or special effects soundsin at least two points in the broadcast FOUND
5) it must make reference to at least one website that contains information relevant to your stated topic NOT FOUND
6) it must be certifiably "school appropriate" Lots o' swearing on the RATM song at 16 minute mark, and swearing in the song at about 9 minutes -- FIX THAT!

REVOLUTION RADIO
0) you must have posted both a topic and a topic outline to our Google group FOUND
1) it must be at least twenty minutes long ABOUT 3 minutes so far
2) it must have a brand new theme song, not more than one minute in length NOT FOUND
3) it must include audible input from all team members FOUND
4) it must include either bumper music or special effects soundsin at least two points in the broadcast NOT FOUND
5) it must make reference to at least one website that contains information relevant to your stated topic NOT FOUND
6) it must be certifiably "school appropriate" YES IT IS SO FAR

PETER COTTONTAIL -- show not found, please tell me where the heck it is



THE SHOW RETURNS
0) you must have posted both a topic and a topic outline to our Google group FOUND
1) it must be at least twenty minutes long YES IT IS
2) it must have a brand new theme song, not more than one minute in length FOUND
3) it must include audible input from all team members FOUND
4) it must include either bumper music or special effects soundsin at least two points in the broadcast FOUND
5) it must make reference to at least one website that contains information relevant to your stated topic NOT FOUND
6) it must be certifiably "school appropriate" YES, ALTHOUGH I WOULD GO OVER IT AGAIN JUST TO BE SURE

SOGGY BUFFS
0) you must have posted both a topic and a topic outline to our Google group FOUND
1) it must be at least twenty minutes long roughly 12 minutes
2) it must have a brand new theme song, not more than one minute in length NOT FOUND
3) it must include audible input from all team members FOUND
4) it must include either bumper music or special effects soundsin at least two points in the broadcast NOT FOUND
5) it must make reference to at least one website that contains information relevant to your stated topic NOT FOUND
6) it must be certifiably "school appropriate" enough with the "suck" word already!

Monday April 13th: three days left!

Greetings, traffic dodgers:



OK, the posting pretty much says it all: this is our last week before vacation, and you have thre class days before our last day. I don't count the last day, because



A) that is the day I absolutely MUST get all your shows up online and


B) let's get real: it's pretty hard to motivate ANY student to get much done the day before a vacation. Even students as dedicated as yourself.



So, it being the last week, I feel I ought to re-iterate the MINIMUM requirements for this particular broadcast:



0) you must have posted both a topic and a topic outline to our Google group

1) it must be at least twenty minutes long

2) it must have a brand new theme song, not more than one minute in length

3) it must include audible input from all team members

4) it must include either bumper music or special effects sounds in at least two points in the broadcast

5) it must make reference to at least one website that contains information relevant to your stated topic

6) it must be certifiably "school appropriate"



OK, that's it. Let's get going! and make sure when you upload your files to Box.net that you email me and tell me what the file name is called



Cheers,

Mr. L

Tuesday, April 7: a new way to get stuff to Mr. LaRue

Greetings, loud and nosiy radio people!

Today, you are going to do two things:

A) continue working towards completing your first April broadcast. Remember, we have only five class days left after today: that should be plenty of time, but its not unlimited. And no, I'm NOT counting the last day before the April vacation in my day count: I'm zany and crazy, but not stupidly optimistic

B) As you complete work on your shows, you may notice that many of your files are just simply too darned big to be uploaded to Box.net; nor can you effectively send them by Gmail. What I would like you all to try is uploading them to a shared folder that I have setup for you at divshare.com; here is the address:

http://www.divshare.com/folder/528547-c62

If this works, and your teams want to have their own folders, I can probably set them up for you without too much trouble. It looks like Divshare allows much bigger file uploads, which will help us all out a lot, I think

Cheers,
Mr. L

PS: Please remember that if you're a junior, you are not coming back here after 3rd lunch: you're going to a junior class meeting. Those of you who are still here, we will be sharing the room with Mr. Collins and his students, as there should be more than enough room. Just a little FYI